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To learn more about Amazon Sponsored Products, click here . Billionaire's Bombshell Sienna Valentine I had everything in the world as long as I followed one simple rule. Don't get attached. Then I met Elizabeth. Ghost Comb.: or, Nothing is written not for nothing. Ryland Walker Knight Here we are, adventuring through the panes. We are Ryland Walker Knight and all his loving friends. As the twitter bio says, "Challah at ya goy"â Kindle Edition Ad feedback Special Offers and Product Promotions Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly The main drama in Bronte's novel happens in a long narrative told by an elderly housekeeper to a convalescing new tenant. This story-within-a-story setup makes it well suited for audio adaptation, as Scales takes the housekeeper's part and relates the past, while West performs as the tenant and describes the present. Scales primarily uses a folksy lower-class accent, but she also makes her voice harsh and threatening when speaking as Heathcliff, the surly man at the novel's heart.

West, as the bewildered tenant, manages to sound both nervous and pretentious, but his part is fairly small, especially with this abridgment, so he mostly serves to provide transitions for the housekeeper's story. The extensive abridgment generally deletes sentences and phrases rather than entire paragraphs or sections. One drawback for the audio format is the difficulty of clarifying the novel's convoluted plot and family tree, since it's harder to search back through long CD tracks than through earlier chapters of the paperback. While a little of the depth of Bronte's writing is lost in abridgment, the novel's emotional core remains intact and wrenching, and the actors' heartfelt interpretations make it easy to imagine being curled up by a warm fire listening to an absorbing tale. In June, Penguin Audio remastered and released on CD for the first time nine other Penguin Classics: Crime and Punishment, Dracula, Frankenstein, Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, Moby Dick, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Tale of Two Cities. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Read more From School Library Journal Grade 8 Up-British actor Martin Shaw reads this shortened version of the classic Emily Bronte novel. His easily-understood accent is appropriate and helps to set the mood. Shaw reads at a very steady pace, pausing effectively for emphasis or when his character might be thinking. Usually calm and gentle, his voice can resonate with anger or other emotion when necessary. There is some differentiation in pitch to emphasize male vs. female speech, but it is not exaggerated or overdone. The abridgement retains Bronte's words linking speech or narration sometimes from one page to another. It provides students with an easier way to become familiar with the story and get a feel for her style. Teachers could use this presentation to introduce the novel or to entice students to read it on their own. Claudia Moore, W.T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here , or download a FREE Kindle Reading App .

Product Details Publisher: Dover Publications; New edition edition (September 24, 1996) Language: English Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces ( View shipping rates and policies ) Average Customer Review: By felix on September 28, 2015 Format: Pamphlet|Verified Purchase Be aware that the cover of this book is made to look like a Penguin Classic. It is not a Penguin Classic. It lacks any publisher information. Also, note the dimensions in the description and you will find that it is more the size of a workbook. I will return mine and buy the normal sized, Penguin Classic. By Amazon Customer on April 23, 2014 Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase If you haven't read it in a while, it might be time for a re-read. Jane Eyre is modern in that she is remarkably strong-minded, she loves passionately, and she learns to accept her less-than-perfect looks. She makes something of herself despite tremendous obstacles, in a time when educated women of the peasant class were not at all common. All this and the book has a delicious dark mystery to savor.

I had to take off a star, though, for the dismissive treatment of mental illness. Of course, that is the way things were in those times, but it is painful to be reminded of how mental illness strains the capacity to be and to be treated as human. Read more 0Comment | 11 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report abuse By Nels Nelson on January 2, 2017 Format: Paperback|Verified Purchase My review is not for Jane Eyre, but for the endnotes in the Penguin Classics edition. If you're reading the book for the first time, the notes contain tons of major spoilers for what is to come later. Not subtle hints, but flat-out summaries of things that will happen ten chapters later. It's a shame, because most of the notes are useful - translations of French, Latin, and Italian; definitions of archaic words; explanations of literary references, etc. - but eventually I found I couldn't look at any of the endnotes for fear that they'd spoil major upcoming plot twists.

The editor seems to have written the notes for a scholarly audience, people reading the book for the umpteenth time, forgetting about the first-time reader who wants to actually enjoy the story. By Cphe on April 3, 2016 Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase Well, I'm another reader who rates this 5 stars. I remember reading this as a young girl and enjoying it immensely but I got so much more out of it this classic the second time around. I admired Jane's integrity, her strength and her ability to forgive in a world that was by no means "kind." I've been on a roll lately with my "classics" reading, there have been some very good reads and Jane Eyre is among "the best". A novel with a strong and resilient heroine, a dark and brooding hero, wonderfully gothic tones and an air of sinister malevolence........what's not to love?

By Z Hayes HALL OF FAME TOP 100 REVIEWER on June 29, 2013 Format: Leather Bound|Verified Purchase I have been collecting The Easton Press Collector's Editions for several years now and consider them to be one of the more exquisite and beautiful book collections in the market. Nothing gives me more pleasure than to gaze upon the beautiful bound books, each having that distinctive leather-bound smell, and of course, the gorgeous illustrations that accompany these editions. Aside from scouring used bookstores, I have also been lucky enough to find some of the Easton Press titles on Amazon and this Easton Press Collector's Edition of Emily BrontÃ«'s "Wuthering Heights" did not disappoint. The book, purchased via a third party seller here, arrived in almost mint condition (even the bookplate sticker, which I found among the pages, had not been peeled off and placed on the inside cover by the previous owner). The gilt-edging on the cover and back is in a beautiful gold, and the book itself is bound in genuine leather and is a grayish black.

Most of the Easton Press Collector's Editions come in distinctive colors, all of which are bound in genuine leather, so they not only make for handsome additions to one's personal library, but are also heirloom quality, and of course, make great gifts for bibliophiles. This book is part of the Easton Press series titled "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written". The book contains color lithographs by Barnett Freedman and was published in 1980. There is a frontispiece portrait of Emily BrontÃ« specially commissioned for this edition. The artist is Barbara Sparks. This edition also includes: The Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell by Currer Bell (Charlotte BrontÃ«) An Editor's Preface to the New Edition of Wuthering Heights (1850) A diagram depicting key players in the story The text of "Wuthering Heights" which is based on the Oxford edition (with the original printer's errors corrected) All in all, this is a handsome leather-bound edition of one of the greatest works of English literature.

By Lil'Lyssa on July 12, 2016 Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase I posted this review on my Facebook page a while back, and thought I would share it here. I love this novel. It's actually oddly empowering for its day and age, by portraying an independent, intelligent, strong female protagonist. And I love how it is these strong characteristics that cause the romantic lead to fall in love with her. I love that neither she nor he are "beautiful", and that even in a scene where she is proposed to, not only does she assert that she has her own will and spirit ("I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you!") and that they are equals, but he agrees wholeheartedly ("as we are!), and begs her to let her will decide whether she will marry him or not ("And your will shall decide your destinyâ¦I offer you my heart, my hand, and a share of all my possessionsâ¦").

He concludes his proposal with "I ask you to pass through life at my side - to be my second self, and best earthly companion." Later, without giving TOO much away, she demonstrates strength of character, an independent will, and the CHOICE of free forgiveness. For a book published in 1847, this book portrays a woman who is strong enough to stand on her own despite her circumstances and the era, who sees herself as a free, intellectual and spiritual equal, and who demonstrates that forgiveness and love do not show weakness, but rather strength of character and spirit. This is my favourite novel of all time, and I recommend it to strong, empowered romantics everywhere :) Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights Video ____________________________________________________________________________________ Want more deets? We've also got a complete Online Course about Wuthering Heights, with three weeks worth of readings and activities to make sure you know your stuff. ____________________________________________________________________________________ You know the sayings: love conquers all. All you need is love. Love is many splendored thing.

How about this one: love is incestuous, psychologically damaging, manipulative, violent, digs up your corpse when you die, and wants to be haunted by your ghost forever and ever? It may not be the sentiment on most Valentines Day cards, but it sure is the pervasive opinion on l'amour in Wuthering Heights. Does that sound like kind of a horrific idea of love to you? We have bad news for you—you're almost totally alone in thinking that. Wuthering Heights, and its warped idea of true love, is often voted the #1 Greatest Love Story. Wuthering Heights, published in 1847, revolves around the passionate and destructive love between its two central characters, Emily Brontë's headstrong and beautiful Catherine Earnshaw and her tall, dark, handsome, and brooding hero/devil, Heathcliff. Forget the romantic candlelit dinners, the wine, and the roses. Catherine and Heathcliff's love exists on an entirely different plane: one that involves ghosts, corpses, the communion (or possession) of souls, and revenge.

And, speaking of revenge, Heathcliff—who harbors more than one grudge against his adoptive family, the love of his life, and his neighbors—manages to make every revenge drama look like kids' play. Though Wuthering Heights is considered a classic, the book wasn't always so popular. In fact, when it first came out there was all sorts of confusion about the author, because Brontë published the book under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. Readers thought the book was by the same author who wrote Jane Eyre (which was more immediately embraced by the public because the characters are a lot more likable). Turns out, Emily's sister Charlotte wrote Jane Eyre... under the pseudonym Currer Bell. To set the record straight, Charlotte wrote the preface to the 1850 edition of Wuthering Heights and also took the opportunity to address some of the bad press the book had received. Critics basically thought the book was a downer and some even characterized it as immoral. Um. We don't usually agree with critics from the 1850's but they were half right. This book is a downer. Heathcliff is amoral.

But that doesn't keep the love story in Wuthering Heights from being one of the most passionate love stories ever told—or one of the most often-adapted . Sure, its idea of love is psychotic. Sure, it's uber-unhealthy. Sure, it makes "Blank Space" look like a really level-headed approach to eros. But that's the point. Sometimes "madly in love" means just that: that love has rendered you literally mad. Sometimes it ain't healthy. It's not a good idea. But all-consuming, stay-up-all-night, hurts-worse-than-a-root-canal love is real—and Emily Brontë's novel tells it like it is. Welcome to Wuthering Heights, where love will tear you apart , follow you every step you take , and come in like a wrecking ball . Why Should I Care? Maybe you've seen those flowcharts that lead to only one possible answer. They'll ask a question—for example Is everything okay?—and you'll answer "Yes" or "No" and be led to a single option: Eat more ice cream! or Eat more bacon! or Eat more bacon ice cream!

Well, Shmoopers, we have a yes/ no question for you: do you like romantic stories? ... Read Wuthering Heights. Right about now you might be feeling peeved. "Hey," you might be saying, "I know Wuthering Heights is a romantic book. It's often called the most romantic book of all time. And I don't like sappy-pants, swoony love stories. Like we said—read Wuthering Heights. This is a love story like Moby Dick is a story about whaling. Yes, love in Wuthering Heights is pervasive. Yes, it's what the story is "about." But this book comes with a huge disclaimer that shouts: "Don't try this at home, kids!" Because—spoiler alert—the love story in Wuthering Heights doesn't pan out. This novel is not about Catherine + Heathcliff = everlasting love. For one thing, they're siblings. For another, Catherine marries someone else for money and status. Heathcliff goes insane. He seduces another woman and then abuses her. He digs up the corpse of his lady love. He torments children. He dies cold and alone...

but not before he makes everyone within a twenty-five mile radius of him insanely unhappy. This novel is romantic in the same way that Lolita is romantic or Anna Karenina is romantic. Sure, there's love in all these books. But that love is also psychopathic, life-ruining, selfish, and totally twisted. In fact, this novel is all about things being both very black and very white. Characters are both very good and very bad. Love is both true and a total lie. Class boundaries are both rigid and malleable. The moors are both beautiful and terrifying. Death is both final and... not so final. So, with that in mind, here's another quiz: do you believe in ghosts? ... Wuthering Heights (1939) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.

Director: a list of 30 titles created 17 Dec 2011 a list of 23 titles created 10 Dec 2014 a list of 42 titles created 15 Jan 2015 a list of 28 titles created 14 Apr 2015 a list of 25 titles created 02 Oct 2015 Search for " Wuthering Heights " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 7 nominations. See more awards » Videos A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life. Director: William Wyler A man becomes obsessed with vengeance when his soul mate marries another man. Director: Peter Kosminsky In 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.

Director: William Wyler Doomed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff are torn apart by their own selfishness and hate. Director: Robert Fuest Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate tale of the intense and demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, allegedly a Gypsy foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr ... See full summary » Director: Elisaveta Abrahall A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest. Director: Ernst Lubitsch A poor boy of unknown origins is rescued from poverty and taken in by the Earnshaw family where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy. Based on the classic novel by Emily Bronte. Director: Andrea Arnold After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter. Director: Robert Stevenson The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the twentieth century. Director: William Wyler A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women. Director: George Stevens Mr.

and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to ... See full summary » Director: Robert Z. Leonard A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter. Director: William Wyler Edit Storyline The story of unfortunate lovers Heathcliff and Cathy who, despite a deep affection for one another, are forced by circumstance and prejudice to live their apart. Heathcliff and Cathy first meet as children when her father brings the abandoned boy to live with them. When the old man dies several years later Cathy's brother, now the master of the estate, turns Heathcliff out forcing him to live with the servants and working as a stable boy. The barrier of class comes between them and she eventually marries a rich neighbor, Mr. Edgar Linton, at which point Heathcliff disappears. He returns several years later, now a rich man but little can be done. Written by garykmcd UNFORGETTABLE IN ITS EMOTIONAL APPEAL!

(British Quad) See more » Genres: 7 April 1939 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording) Color: Did You Know? Trivia The production was not an easy one, and all the way through shooting what he would later say was his favourite among all the films he made, Samuel Goldwyn constantly referred to it as "a doubtful picture." See more » Goofs Cathy's muff disappears when she turns around after entering the room. See more » Quotes Cathy : Heathcliff, make the world stop right here. Make everything stop and stand still and never move again. Make the moors never change and you and I never change. Heathcliff : The moors and I will never change. Don't you, Cathy. Cathy : I can't. I can't. No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me now; standing on this hill with you. This is me forever. See more » Crazy Credits Opening credits prologue: On the barren Yorkshire moors in England, a hundred years ago, stood a house as bleak and desolate as the wastes around it.

Only a stranger lost in a storm would have dared to knock at the door of Wuthering Heights. See more » Connections Piano Sonata in A major, K.331: Rondo alla Turca (1778) (uncredited) (Ohio) – See all my reviews Director William Wyler and star Laurence Olivier bring to life the atmosphere and most important characters of a classic novel in "Wuthering Heights". While necessarily omitting much of the material for cinematic purposes, and having a slightly different emphasis, the film version will still be appreciated by those who enjoy classic stories. The Emily Brontë novel on which the film is based is one of the greatest books of its kind. It is far deeper than any film version could be, so for this movie only a portion of the story is used, and several characters are omitted. The movie also has more of a melodramatic feel than did the novel. It does retain the flashback-style of narrative, which works just as well in the film as it did in the book. The story opens with a weary traveler meeting up with a now-aging, hostile, and excitable Heathcliff (Olivier), after the main action of the story is in the past.

Unsettled by this strange man, the traveler is told Heathcliff's story by the housekeeper Ellen (Flora Robson). This begins with Heathcliff's childhood, and goes through his relations with the Earnshaw family and the Linton family. The heart of the story is his troubled romance with Catherine Earnshaw (Merle Oberon), whom he has known since being taken in by her family as a child. This relationship in turn leads to conflicts with most of the other characters, and affects the lives of everyone involved in profound ways. Olivier memorably portrays this difficult character, and helps the audience feel his longing and restlessness. Oberon is also ideal as Catherine - a mercurial character who is both a complement and a contrast to Heathcliff. The other main strength of the film is its realization of the main settings, which are almost as important to the story as the characters are: once-fine but now gloomy and declining Wuthering Heights; the pleasant but vapid Thrushcross Grange, home of the Linton family; and especially the wild, mysterious Yorkshire moors, the only place where Heathcliff and Cathy are ever really happy.

These settings are all effectively created and photographed, and provide an appropriate background to the events and tensions in the characters' lives. The result is a movie that, while lacking the complexity of the novel, is a satisfying realization of the most important aspects of the book, and which effectively brings the audience into the lives and hearts of the characters. 44 of 45 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights: Bronte vs Bronte - Telegraph Books Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights: Bronte vs Bronte This autumn, new film versions of the two great Romantic novels by the Brontë sisters Charlotte and Emily go head to head. Both have been filmed many times – but which is the greater book? We asked well-known figures to name their favourite 5:26PM BST 23 Aug 2011 Blake Morrison, writer Asking which you prefer out of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre is similar to the questions, “Are you John Lennon or Paul McCartney?” and “Are you cat or dog?” The more exciting people are John Lennon, cat and Wuthering Heights. But I am Paul McCartney, dog and Jane Eyre.

Jane Eyre is the safe option, but that undersells it. It’s a beautifully constructed novel, and I think there’s nothing quite as powerful as those early scenes set in school, clearly written out of personal experience but brilliantly fictionalised. In comparison, I find Wuthering Heights very creaky and very flawed. People love its wildness and passion and the complicated intermixing of love and hate, but I’m with Charlotte. There are themes in Wuthering Heights that smack of melodrama, but it is still a good novel. Like the scene when Cathy and Heathcliff are young and outside Thrushcross Grange and they are peering into this other world. Briefly, she is assumed into that world and he feels a perfect bond has been broken – that’s very powerful. It’s a much darker and more disturbing tale than Jane Eyre. Related Articles TV and film adaptations of Jane Eyre 23 Aug 2011 People who have read biographies of the Brontës may slightly take against Charlotte because of the way she handled Emily. She was slightly disparaging about Wuthering Heights in the preface to the new edition that came out when Emily had died.

She praised the novel, but her words had an air of condescension. Cornelia Parker, artist Wuthering Heights is a daring book. When I first read both novels as a teenager, I loved Jane Eyre more, but, on rereading them as an adult, I realised how brilliant Wuthering Heights is. As a teenager, it’s harder to follow but as an adult you really appreciate its courage. Jane Eyre has a good end, but Wuthering Heights is such a brilliant concept. You could have almost made a Rorschach blot of it because there’s a double history repeating itself. The novel has an amazing breadth and depth. Heathcliff is the ultimate anti-hero, unlike any character in Jane Eyre. Rochester is similar, but he’s not flawed in the way Heathcliff is. Both books have supernatural tints to them, but Wuthering Heights is a more raw masterpiece than Jane Eyre. I once met one of my heroes, the writer Gabriel García Márquez, and I happened to have Wuthering Heights with me. He said he thought it was a fantastic book and I can see why.

Getting him to sign the book felt like an apt homage to Emily Brontë. Richard Eyre, director I saw films of both before I read the novels and found Wuthering Heights gripping but preposterous. It’s all too gothic for me: Heathcliff is a thundering bore, and Cathy is like Miss Piggy. I’m more interested – and touched – by Jane Eyre because I find her a much more sympathetic character than Cathy, and the relationship with Mr Rochester is plausible and well charted. However, the novel that really interests me is The Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys’s prequel to Jane Eyre, which tells the story of the first Mrs Rochester, the mad woman in the attic. Philip Hensher, writer I prefer Jane Eyre by a country mile. All that tremulous standing in doorways, the vicar, “Reader, I married him”: wonderful. Virginia Woolf once said that, in Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë had gigantic ambition that was summed up by the sentence “You the eternal powers…” but she didn’t know how to finish it. I think there’s something in that.

For me, Wuthering Heights is a wonderful gesture, but it’s a gesture of someone running out on the moors and giving a great big yell, which we all feel like sometimes. But Charlotte Brontë absolutely knew what she was doing. Jane Eyre is an extraordinary book. People remember it as a single-strand love story, but all sorts of things happen in it. I don’t think Charlotte Brontë is like any other novelist in the century. How could anyone not love Jane Eyre? Julian Lloyd Webber, musician The complex relationships between the brilliantly drawn characters and the passion surrounding the doomed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights are the very essence of music: the novel has inspired at least three operas and that famous eponymous song by Kate Bush. The best known of the operas, incidentally, is by Bernard Herrmann, who composed the music for Psycho, and in many ways Wuthering Heights could have made an ideal movie subject for Hitchcock.

Although written more than half a century before, Emily Brontë’s grand-guignol masterpiece has much in common with Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca: for Wuthering Heights read Manderley, for Heathcliff read Maxim de Winter. It was not by chance that the same actor – Laurence Olivier – played both roles in classic mid-20th-century films. What lingers longest in the memory from Wuthering Heights is its claustrophobic sense of intrigue and its bleak description of both mental and physical cruelty which, to say the least, was exceptionally brave for its time. No wonder Emily Brontë ensured that her sole novel was published under a pseudonym. John Mullan, academic Secretly, many English-literature academics regret their students’ enthusiasm for Wuthering Heights. Structurally, it is a ramshackle affair, with Nelly Dean’s narrative awkwardly folded into Lockwood’s. The dialogue is hyperbolical and pumped up with dark talk of devils and damnation, while the generational sweep is confused (try giving a plot summary). It is the clumsy first novel of a genius. Jane Eyre is a finished masterpiece.

Charlotte Brontë had already completed a novel (The Professor) and knew her way. Her heroine’s voice – plain yet fiercely eloquent – is one of the most arresting in all fiction. Many Victorians were upset by this narrator’s sheer dissatisfaction with what life offered her, which now thrills readers. Both reactions stem from Jane’s sheer intimacy with the reader, which was her creator’s unprecedented achievement. Jane Eyre is the “better” novel, and I prefer it – yet Wuthering Heights contains sentences that no other writer could have written and an extraordinary vision of love’s corrosive fury. No wonder that many young readers feel about its images the way Cathy does about her dreams: “They’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.” Penelope Lively, writer I’ve always liked Jane Eyre’s voice. The plot and characters in Wuthering Heights can be so bewildering. You really have to concentrate and I often find myself flicking backwards and forwards to remind myself who is who and who marries whom. I like the way Jane Eyre powers forward and you can’t but identify with her.

There’s also the marvellous narrative device of the mad woman in the attic, which is better than anything in Wuthering Heights. The one thing that you can say about both of them is that they’ve been God’s gift to film, though, fortunately, you don’t associate the characters with particular actors. There’s lots of British weather in Wuthering Heights, but the wildness doesn’t appeal to me, it’s too much “pathetic fallacy” weather. Weather as a device that’s overdone. You’ve got a storm or two in Jane Eyre, but it’s rather more sparse, more judiciously used. That said, Wuthering Heights is a marvellous novel, but I warm to Jane Eyre. Edited by Daisy Bowie-Sell Alll about the author of Wuthering Heights Works This page is optimised for print Source: COMMON KNOWLEDGE/CITED. Much of the information on this page such as the timeline can be found at many reliable sources. Other information comes from books and is cited where possible.

Translate this page: Emily Jane Brontë The author of Wuthering Heights was Emily Jane Brontë, the middle of the world-famous Brontë sisters (pronounced BRON-tee, not bron-TAY, see Pronunciations ). An isolated, painfully shy woman, she produced one of the most distinctive novels in literature and some of the greatest poetry. Her character and life are as singular as her book. Description painted by her brother Branwell in 1834 Emily had an unusual character, extremely unsocial and reserved, with few friends outside her family. She preferred the company of animals to people and rarely travelled, forever yearning for the freedom of Haworth and the moors. She had a will of iron – a well known story about her is that she was bitten by a (possibly) rabid dog which resulted in her walking calmly into the kitchen and cauterising the wound herself with a hot iron. 1 She had unconventional religious beliefs, rarely attending church services and, unlike the other children, never teaching in the Sunday School.

In appearance, she was lithesome and graceful, the tallest of the Brontë children (her coffin measured five feet seven inches – 1.7 metres) but ate sparingly and would starve herself when unhappy or unable to get her own way. As her literary works suggest, she was highly intelligent, teaching herself German while working in the kitchen (her favourite place outside of the moors) and playing the piano well enough to teach it in Brussels. Her stubbornness lasted to the end where she refused to see a doctor or rest while she was dying of tuberculosis. In 1871, Ellen Nussey, a lifelong friend of the Brontës, wrote of her first impressions of the fifteen-year-old Emily in Reminiscences of Charlotte Brontë 2 : Rosemary McHale Brontes of Haworth Emily Brontë had by this time acquired a lithesome, graceful figure. She was the tallest person in the house, except her father. Her hair, which was naturally as beautiful as Charlotte's, was in the same unbecoming tight curl and frizz, and there was the same want of complexion.

She had very beautiful eyes – kind, kindling, liquid eyes; but she did not often look at you; she was too reserved. Their colour might be said to be dark grey, at other times dark blue, they varied so. She talked very little. She and Anne were like twins – inseparable companions, and in the very closest sympathy, which never had any interruption. Charlotte famously said of her sister: Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone. 3 Link to page of portraits (genuine and otherwise) of Emily Brontë Genealogy Link to a graphical timeline of Emily and her siblings History Irish-born Patrick Brontë (who changed his surname from Brunty) and his Cornish wife Maria Branwell, moved to Thornton in Yorkshire where Emily was born 198 years ago on 30 July 1818. She was the fifth of six children. Her second name was probably inspired by her godmother, (her mother's cousin) although it is unknown where 'Emily' came from. 4 In 1820, the family moved to Haworth , where Emily's father was to be perpetual curate.

Haworth was an unhealthy, poor town and the children spent much of their time either roaming on the nearby moors or in the parsonage, creating stories and poems about imaginary lands. The four eldest Brontë daughters were enrolled as pupils at the Clergy Daughter's School at Cowan Bridge in 1824. The following year Maria and Elizabeth, the two eldest daughters, became ill, left the school and died; Charlotte and Emily returned home. For a poor clergyman's daughter, there was little hope of a career beyond a governess or teacher and Emily began work as the latter at Law Hill school , near Halifax in 1838 but hated the job, starving herself and returning home about six months later. In February 1842,with her sister Charlotte, she attended a private school in Brussels with the intention of preparing themselves to open their own teaching establishment. Emily again found herself unsuited to the life and the sisters returned home in November. They tried to open up a school at their home in 1844 but had no pupils and Emily eventually accepted a domestic life in the parsonage, cooking and looking after her father. The Brontë sisters in St.

Michael Church Charlotte, Emily and Anne published a joint collection of their poetry in 1846 under the pen-names Currer, Ellis 5 and Acton Bell. In 1847, Wuthering Heights and Anne's Agnes Grey were published in a three volume set to mixed reviews (Wuthering Heights comprising two of the volumes, Agnes Grey the other). Wuthering Heights was republished in 1850 under Emily's real name. Her brother Branwell died in September 1848 and Emily caught a chill during the funeral. This brought on the tuberculosis that she had probably originally caught when nursing Branwell. Refusing all medical help until too late, she died 168 years ago surrounded by her family on 19 December, 1848, about two in the afternoon. She was interred in the family vault of the church opposite her Haworth home three days later.

(She was so emaciated when she died that her coffin was just 16 inches/40 cm wide.) The record of Emily's burial Link to "FAQ: How could Emily Brontë write Wuthering Heights?" Works Emily (and her sisters') first published work was the book Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, published in 1846 with their own money. It was not a success, selling only two copies (although it did better as a reprint after the success of the novels). The sisters and Branwell had written poetry from childhood and the venture came about when Charlotte discovered a book of Emily's poetry in 1845 and persuaded her (with difficulty) to combine them with Charlotte's and Anne's. Despite the failure of the book, the sisters continued their literary career, turning to prose. Emily only wrote the one novel, Wuthering Heights, although she was probably working on a second when she died. However, no trace of this book remains.

We only think she was writing it because her publisher, T C Newby, sent her a letter dated 15 February 1848 which said: I am much obliged by your kind note and shall have great pleasure in making arrangements for your next novel. I would not hurry its completion, for I think you are quite right not to let it go before the world until well satisfied with it, for much depends on your new work. If it be an improvement on your first, you will have established yourself as a first rate novelist, but if it fall short the Critics will be too apt to say that you have expended your talent in your first novel. I shall therefore have pleasure in accepting it upon the understanding that its completion be in your own time. You can read some contemporary reviews of Wuthering Heights on the Critical Reviews page . Some of her poems (and one by Charlotte) can be seen by clicking on the link below.

‘Wuthering Heights,’ by Andrea Arnold, With Kaya Scodelario - The New York Times The New York Times Movies |Heathcliff and Cathy, With Lust and Mud Search Heathcliff and Cathy, With Lust and Mud ‘Wuthering Heights,’ by Andrea Arnold, With Kaya Scodelario Wuthering Heights Continue reading the main story Photo Solomon Glave as Young Heathcliff and Shannon Beer as Young Cathy in “Wuthering Heights.” Credit Agatha Nitecka/Oscilloscope Laboratories Too often, great works of literature arrive on screen weighed down by their reputations, immobilized in a straitjacket of cultural prestige. Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” is a wild emanation of Victorian genius half-tamed by time and term papers, and Andrea Arnold ’s new film adaptation is an admirable, frustrating attempt to strip away the novel’s inherited “classic” status and restore its raw and earthy passion. Abandoning the lush and stately romanticism of most earlier filmed versions (like William Wyler’s 1939 swoon fest , with Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier as Cathy and Heathcliff), Ms.

Arnold’s “Wuthering Heights,” with the screen’s first black Heathcliff (played by two different actors), emphasizes mud, misery and savage, inarticulate feelings. Shot in a boxy format with a drab, harsh palette that suits the weather and the mood of emotional and material deprivation, the movie intersperses vertiginous Yorkshire vistas with almost microscopic examinations of the local flora and fauna. There are close-ups of moths, beetles, lichen and weeds, provided as background for a Darwinian study of lust and domination. Rabbits are killed, puppies tormented and livestock roughly treated. Horses are granted at least a measure of dignity, perhaps more than the human residents of this elemental world. We first encounter a mature Heathcliff (James Howson) doing violence to himself, beating his head against a wall in a fit of rage and despair, and we quickly perceive that his earlier life was no less brutal. Photo Mr. Glave in Andrea Arnold's film.

Credit Agatha Nitecka/Oscilloscope Laboratories In this foreshortened telling of Brontë’s tale (the action in the film roughly corresponds to the first half of the book) Young Heathcliff (Solomon Glave) arrives at the Earnshaw home in the midst of a torrential nocturnal downpour, one of several storms that punctuate the narrative and amplify its tempestuous moods. The love of his life, Cathy (Shannon Beer), welcomes him by spitting in his face, and he greets his new family with growls and curses. Mr. Earnshaw, the patriarch (Paul Hilton), is stern but compassionate, though his severe discipline is better than the vengeful sadism of his son, Hindley (Lee Shaw), who takes over the household after the old man dies. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Harsh natural and domestic circumstances provide fertile ground for the ardor that blossoms between Heathcliff and Cathy. They are more attuned than their kin or the neighbors to the rhythms of life and death. Ms. Arnold, who wrote the screenplay with Olivia Hetreed, depicts their sometimes rough intimacy as a primordial state of hunger, deeper than language, reason or even sexual desire.

She has a particular knack for bringing alive the inchoate, angry urges of adolescence and for turning the sullen faces and slack postures of young, untrained actors into frighteningly expressive instruments. Anyone who saw Ms. Arnold’s “Fish Tank” (2010), set in a modern northern England of housing projects and shabby town centers, is likely to have been haunted (and persuaded) by its portrait of teenage fury and social dysfunction. “Wuthering Heights” extends that vision backward. Video embed The novel, first published pseudonymously in 1847, takes place mostly at the end of the previous century. Ms. Arnold imagines the past not as a simpler, more innocent time but as an era blighted by older versions of the same cruelties — rooted in differences of sex, race and social position — that afflict our own. Cathy, a stout, windswept lass, grows up into a willowy lady (played by Kaya Scodelario) with finer clothes and a house far grander and cleaner than the Earnshaw property that gives the film its name.

(She also has a pathetic husband, Edgar, played in boyhood by Jonathan Powell and as a man by James Northcote.) For his part, Heathcliff, having made a mysterious fortune, trades the rags of his wretched youth for a velvet coat and breeches. But the film, like the hearts of its protagonists, continues to dwell in a state of unruly, unbuttoned intensity. Or at least it tries. The jump cuts, off-kilter angles and hurtling hand-held camerawork; the guttural stammerings of the actors; and the ambient muck of the production design are signs of what has become a familiar aesthetic agenda. These techniques are meant to create a sense of immediacy, a supremely powerful naturalism. But in this case, curiously enough, the effect is the opposite. The grunts and howls seem every bit as mannered as the florid diction of Olivier and Oberon, perhaps even more so. Their artifice, like Brontë’s own, was overt, whereas Ms. Arnold strives to disguise hers in the trappings of authenticity. And as a result, the impact — the grandeur, the art — of “Wuthering Heights” is diminished.

Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë (Author of Wuthering Heights) Fiction , Poetry Influences edit data Emily Jane Brontë was a British novelist and poet, now best remembered for her only novel Wuthering Heights, a classic of English literature. Emily was the second eldest of the three surviving Brontë sisters, being younger than Charlotte Brontë and older than Anne Brontë . She published under the masculine pen name Ellis Bell. Emily was born in Thornton, near Bradford in Yorkshire to Patrick Brontë and Maria Branwell. She was the younger sister of Charlotte Brontë and the fifth of six children. In 1824, the family moved to Haworth, where Emily's father was perpetual curate, and it was in these surroundings that their literary oddities flourished. In childhood, after the death of their mother, the three sisters and their brother Patrick Branwe Emily Jane Brontë was a British novelist and poet, now best remembered for her only novel Wuthering Heights, a classic of English literature. Emily was the second eldest of the three surviving Brontë sisters, being younger than Charlotte Brontë and older than Anne Brontë . She published under the masculine pen name Ellis Bell.

Emily was born in Thornton, near Bradford in Yorkshire to Patrick Brontë and Maria Branwell. She was the younger sister of Charlotte Brontë and the fifth of six children. In 1824, the family moved to Haworth, where Emily's father was perpetual curate, and it was in these surroundings that their literary oddities flourished. In childhood, after the death of their mother, the three sisters and their brother Patrick Branwell Brontë created imaginary lands (Angria, Gondal, Gaaldine, Oceania), which were featured in stories they wrote. Little of Emily's work from this period survived, except for poems spoken by characters (The Brontës' Web of Childhood, Fannie Ratchford, 1941). In 1842, Emily commenced work as a governess at Miss Patchett's Ladies Academy at Law Hill School, near Halifax, leaving after about six months due to homesickness. Later, with her sister Charlotte, she attended a private school in Brussels. They later tried to open up a school at their home, but had no pupils.

It was the discovery of Emily's poetic talent by Charlotte that led her and her sisters, Charlotte and Anne, to publish a joint collection of their poetry in 1846, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers, the Brontë sisters adopted androgynous first names. All three retained the first letter of their first names: Charlotte became Currer Bell, Anne became Acton Bell, and Emily became Ellis Bell. In 1847, she published her only novel, Wuthering Heights, as two volumes of a three volume set (the last volume being Agnes Grey by her sister Anne). Its innovative structure somewhat puzzled critics. Although it received mixed reviews when it first came out, the book subsequently became an English literary classic. In 1850, Charlotte edited and published Wuthering Heights as a stand-alone novel and under Emily's real name. Like her sisters, Emily's health had been weakened by the harsh local climate at home and at school.

She caught a chill during the funeral of her brother in September, and, having refused all medical help, died on December 19, 1848 of tuberculosis, possibly caught from nursing her brother. She was interred in the Church of St. Michael and All Angels family capsule, Haworth, West Yorkshire, England. ...more

Question: Who wrote the classic novel 'Wuthering Heights'?
Answer: Emily Brontë